BIRTHDAY: Marianna from Greece is 64 today As I’ve said before, there were Eurovision Song Contests before the year 2000. Can you imagine that? A 20th Century contest? Well, some of them even churned out good songs. Can you believe it? Well today’s song comes from the 1980s. […]
UK: Interview with SuRie at the London Eurovision Party 2019 Eurovision Ireland caught up with SuRie at the 2019 London Eurovision Party. We famously missed her at every turn in 2018, so it was good to put that record straight. She told us about touring the UK, new […]
BIRTHDAY: Mikel Herzog from Spain is 59 today Isn’t it often the way that you can tell where someone’s from, just by their name? If it ends in ‘dottir’, it’s usually Icelandic. Or if it ends in ‘ić’, it’s usually from a lot further south-east. So imagine Europe’s […]
NETHERLANDS: Interview with Duncan Laurence at LEP 2019 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Duncan Laurence, just before he performed at the London Eurovision Party at the Café de Paris. He told us about writing collaboration, compering shows and his favourite cake. Can Duncan win in Israel? Tell us […]
ALBANIA: Interview with Jonida Maliqi at LEP 2019 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Jonida Maliqi, just before she performed at the London Eurovision Party at the Café de Paris. She told us about Festivali i Kengës and her favourite cake. Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
IRELAND: Interview with Sarah McTernan at LEP 2019 Eurovision Ireland was lucky enough to catch up with our representative Sarah McTernan, just before the London Eurovision Party at the Café de Paris near Leicester Square. Sarah told us about her time recording her postcard in Israel and her […]
BIRTHDAY: Alla Pugacheva from Russia is 70 today We get heroes performing at our favourite TV show every year. But it’s not every day that we get a People’s Artist of their country – the highest award their country can bestow a performer. Not only is today’s birthday […]
Winter is here… And so is Eurovision! Although it might not seem like it at a first glance, HBO’s hit TV adaptation Game of Thrones and the Eurovision Song Contest do have quite a bit in common: people from far-away lands, speakers of different languages and with different […]
BIRTHDAY: Jacques Houdek from Croatia is 38 today Singer, writer. It’s a well-trodden path. If you’re a singer worth your salt, you may have dabbled in songwriting too. It implies that you can sing, and understand how music properly works. No, I’m not rambling. I’m leading up to […]
BIRTHDAY: Mando from Greece is 53 today Have you noticed that the last few birthdays have featured singers using stage names. Maybe it’s a thing to give them a completely different persona to the off-stage singer. But it’s interesting that stage names can be very different to real […]
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